Family & Friends - and Statistics!!
This trek has taken us to great times with lots of family and so many wonderful friends from years gone by. Someone asked how many people we had visited and how many states we had been in, but we had no clue.
In honor of my father, who was a statistics nut, and for those of you who wanted to know, here are the details. Clarification of numbers: this does NOT list each person visited. If it was a couple or a family, I counted that family unit as one.
*Family: 32
Chaplain friends: 8
Other military-related friends: 8 (We got to visit with all the Panama Parents in our Panama Crew, as well as two of the Panama Kids and their families. For those of you who do not know, the Panama Crew is a wonderful extended family of ours.)
ABTC "Kids" and others related to that ministry: 8 (Students and others related to our ten years at the American Baptist Theological Center at Fuller Seminary.)
Patty's Fuller Student Wives: 6 (including one in Canada!)
Friends from other parts of our lives: 8
Total number of family* and friends with whom we were so, so blessed to share time: 70
Life doesn't get much better than having the great privilege of seeing so many people who have been and continue to be significant in our lives. God is so good!!
States visited, or at least through which we traveled: 26 plus Washington, DC (but just the outskirts)
Miles traveled: 10,864 (For you math buffs, it should read 10,864.20 to complete the mathematical pattern/progression.)
Gas: Highest price paid -- first day out in Williams, AZ: $4.27/gal
Lowest price paid -- last day out in Tolleson, AZ (just west of Phoenix): $3.13/gal
Gas mileage: with our new 2008 Toyota (sticker said miles per gallon would range from 17-23) we usually got around 25 but several times got 28 and the all-time best was . . . 29.9!!!
Weather: almost always fair and enjoyable, with only a little rain in Toronto, New York, & Rhode Island. Temperatures much cooler than expected, until the last week.
Hottest: 111 the first day out across the CA/AZ desert.
Second hottest: 104 the last day out as we came through the Palm Springs area.
Coolest: Rhode Island
We are deeply grateful to God for giving us such a vast array of family and friends and for allowing us to visit this portion of those special people on our wonderful two-month trek, which we call "Crazy Cousin Reunion . . . and More!"
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*My heart considers my family members amongst my "bestest friends," but in consideration of specific statistics, I divided family and friends into separate categories.
In honor of my father, who was a statistics nut, and for those of you who wanted to know, here are the details. Clarification of numbers: this does NOT list each person visited. If it was a couple or a family, I counted that family unit as one.
*Family: 32
Chaplain friends: 8
Other military-related friends: 8 (We got to visit with all the Panama Parents in our Panama Crew, as well as two of the Panama Kids and their families. For those of you who do not know, the Panama Crew is a wonderful extended family of ours.)
ABTC "Kids" and others related to that ministry: 8 (Students and others related to our ten years at the American Baptist Theological Center at Fuller Seminary.)
Patty's Fuller Student Wives: 6 (including one in Canada!)
Friends from other parts of our lives: 8
Total number of family* and friends with whom we were so, so blessed to share time: 70
Life doesn't get much better than having the great privilege of seeing so many people who have been and continue to be significant in our lives. God is so good!!
States visited, or at least through which we traveled: 26 plus Washington, DC (but just the outskirts)
Miles traveled: 10,864 (For you math buffs, it should read 10,864.20 to complete the mathematical pattern/progression.)
Gas: Highest price paid -- first day out in Williams, AZ: $4.27/gal
Lowest price paid -- last day out in Tolleson, AZ (just west of Phoenix): $3.13/gal
Gas mileage: with our new 2008 Toyota (sticker said miles per gallon would range from 17-23) we usually got around 25 but several times got 28 and the all-time best was . . . 29.9!!!
Weather: almost always fair and enjoyable, with only a little rain in Toronto, New York, & Rhode Island. Temperatures much cooler than expected, until the last week.
Hottest: 111 the first day out across the CA/AZ desert.
Second hottest: 104 the last day out as we came through the Palm Springs area.
Coolest: Rhode Island
We are deeply grateful to God for giving us such a vast array of family and friends and for allowing us to visit this portion of those special people on our wonderful two-month trek, which we call "Crazy Cousin Reunion . . . and More!"
~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
*My heart considers my family members amongst my "bestest friends," but in consideration of specific statistics, I divided family and friends into separate categories.
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